Ethically Bankrupt NBA Won’t Hold Games on Election Night to Promote Midterm Voter Turnout – Opinion

On Wednesday, the National Basketball Association’s (NBA), game schedule was released. The league decided not to play games on the 8th of November, which is the night before midterm elections, to encourage voter turnout. Instead, all teams will play the day before on “civic engagement night.” Former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom, a devout Muslim of Turkish heritage, is speaking out against the politics of the league saying that the NBA subliminally encourages votes toward a Certain parties 

Problem is that there are no regulations. #NBAPlayers are subliminally encouraged to vote for one party

Because I held conservative views, my coaches were fired.
players & staffers who had to hide who they support & vote for or they will get hated on the rest of the season. pic.twitter.com/GzznfABxwx

— Enes FREEDOM (@EnesFreedom) August 16, 2022

RedState has previously reported on Freedom’s appearance on Tucker Carlson where he declared leaked recordings show the NBA is “Run by the Chinese Dictatorship.” Freedom’s abrupt departure from the league is Thought to be His criticisms of China’s Communist Party (CCP), Turkey and its support of Tibet. Also, his comments about Uyghur Muslims being treated inhumanely and genocide in China. Republicans were awoken. Members of the Florida delegation sent a March letter to Adam Silver, NBA commissioner, stating that they were aware.

“… the NBA has continued to overlook the egregious human rights abuses committed by the CCP, allowing the CCP politics to play a significant role in the NBA’s business decisions. The most recent example of which was exemplified with the abrupt end of Enes Kanter Freedom’s NBA career.”

Refer to the “business decisions” Referenced, ESPN reports that NBA team owners are involved in billions of dollars worth of Chinese investment and business transactions.

The owners had reason to stay quiet: In addition to the money their teams derive from the NBA’s $5 billion business in China, many have significant personal stakes there through their other businesses.

ESPN examined the investments of 40 principal owners and found that they collectively have more than $10 billion tied up in China — including one owner whose company has a joint venture with an entity that has been sanctioned by the U.S. government.

It’s not that the NBA, its owners, and players aren’t interested in activismThey want to safeguard their Chinese business ventures. No, they are “leading the way” in sports activism, according to CNN.

Steph Curry and Carmello Tony starred in the Spike Lee-directed PSA about gun violence. Former President Barack Obama was involved in the creation of Social Justice Coalition. There is the commonplace kneeling during the National Anthem, and the words “Black Lives Matter” painted on the basketball court where players and coaches were confined to a “bubble” in Orlando during the pandemic-mania of 2020.

The NBAVeryInterest in activism?

Because of the 2017 law that allowed transgender persons to use their natural sex, the NBA had to pull an All-Star NBA game out of Charlotte, North Carolina. That’s GOODThe league considers activism to be activism.

In 2019, Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey tweeted an image that read, “Fight for Freedom. Stand with Hong Kong,” causing swift backlash from across the league and its Chinese counterparts until Morey was forced to apologize. That’s BADThe league explains that activism is prohibited. Probably because China boycotted the NBA by not airing games throughout the country following the Morey tweet, and that’s BadFor business.

Utah had a Bathroom billThe bill was vetoed by Governor Spencer Cox (R), and it was overturned shortly thereafter. If the NBA relocated their 2023 All Star Game from Salt Lake City, the biggest monetary stakes seemed to be.  It can be confusing to understand the NBA’s influenced politics while they pretend this is all non-partisan civic activity. Bossiping the Beijing Olympics, for example, is another option. BAD activism, even though there weren’t acceptable transgender bathroom laws available… or fundamental freedoms.

Bankrupt ethics are normative so long as it’s good for profit. So they are now the things they dislike: class struggle theater, multi-millionaires acting out corporate greed under a Marxist pretext and beneficiaries of establishment power structures. Of course, they have the moral high ground to tell you to vote and what issues matter — Did you ever think that this game was real?